Pro's:

• 2 Colourful, clearly designed maps with good area descriptions
• Neat set-up and some genre-stting dialogue/characterization.
• Grusome and gory descriptions of some of the kills the PC's can stumble across.

Con's:

• Not much of a plot to speak of, also minimal build-up before the horror starts. I'd recommend a lot more rising tension and opportunities to flesh out character relationships, etc.
• Secondly (and more importantly) the slasher is kind-of boring. No real motivation, no mention of escaped mental patient, cursed revenant or anything of the like. Just some hard-to-kill psycho who turns up, which is kinda weak. Some serious fleshing out/foreshadowing/make interesting is needed.

So, not the best but lots of potential for a great session, just some work needed to flesh it all out.

Iron Nugget Zombie Hospital puts the Directors Cut Survivor Horror RPG on full display with an original zombie story set in a diabolical insane asylum. You have to love any RPG product that has its own parental advisory disclaimer.

This is a vicious adventure. There is disembowelment, rape and mass murder, all before the adventure even starts. The players are outsiders trapped on the inside who must escape as a zombie onslaught begins.

The adventure has a ton of material for handouts and is told in a way that makes it easy to run sandbox style. With the players only go being escape, there is a lot of room and a lot of hooks to flesh into an ongoing story.

Outside of gaming, horror and horror movies is my second passion (outside of that whole family thing). So when a horror based RPG comes across my desk, I spend a tad bit more time with it than other new systems.

Directors Cut Survival Horror is exactly what you want in a system when running a horror RPG on a beer and pretzels night. It is simple, intuitive and incorporates mood quite well.

Directors Cut, Crispy Zombie Production first product, is horror in a 97 page PDF. The writers obviously know what makes a horror movie tick and how to fit that into an RPG while keeping suspense. They spend a great deal of time in the first few and last few chapters explaining how to set up your Survivor Cut game night. This includes music suggestions, player seating and tone.

The system itself is scarily simple. It is as simple as you want a system to be when the main focus is going to be on role-playing. When trying to create an atmosphere of horror at a game table, you do not want too many rolls. The more “game” you place into it, the more “role playing” you take out of the game. Crispy Zombie gets that. You will need no more than four d6s to play this game. There is a creative mechanic that combines your hit points, saves, and action points into one number that doubles as a deterrent to making erroneous rolls.

Skills are nicely packaged into a couple dozen options you can place bonus points into. They are descriptively vague enough to prevent players from becoming too bogged down on the numbers game. There is no skill that you can not perform, only skills that you perform better than others.

I do hate that, like most horror RPGs, Survivor’s Cut incorporates player elimination into the game play. Obviously people have to die in a horror movie, but in a game setting this can be a nuisance.

For the Director This was an easy game to run. It can be used for a three or four session campaign, but I doubt any of the characters will last longer than that.

For the Player The edges are very creative. Many are tropes of horror movie characters that provide big benefits when facing udder evil.

The Iron Word You can do zombie invasions, slashers or psychological thrillers and Directors Cut is easy enough to blend with all of those genres. A great way to get ready for Halloween, Directors Cut will satisfy any horror RPG cravings your group may be having.